Y/n's POV

"Adam how much longer til we get there?" I asked. We had been skating for what felt like forever.

"We're just about there like 2 more blocks." Adam said. We turned around a corner just in time to see Goldberg get nailed by a puck.

"I'm guessing that's the alley?" I said laughing.

"Yup." Adam replied. We skated back there to find Goldberg complaining.

"Well let's go. We wouldn't want to keep the preppy snots waiting." Charlie said. We skated along a little picking up people as we went. Have no idea what Averman was doing, but for some reason we followed.

"Averman where are you taking us?" Someone asked. I was having a lot of fun to be honest, I was beside Connie right now. All the boys were complaining or talking nonsense. We came to a fork in the road and I heard Goldberg start freaking out.

"Charlie! Charlie! Im a goalie not a skater!" Goldberg yelled. I looked to see Goldberg going down the wrong way and Charlie chasing him.

"Oh crap." I said as the disappeared from sight. We skated for a little bit with no Charlie or Goldberg. We were going under this bridge when I heard screams.

"Do y'all hear that?" I asked.

"Hear what?" Guy asked. The moment he finished the sentence two things hit the ground beside us, I recognized them as Goldberg and Charlie.

"Goldberg!" We all yelled and Avermans congratulations.

"Goldberg don't you ever do that to me again." Charlie said. We skated for a while with Avermans instructions. Finally we arrived at we entrance for Eden Hall. Had to dodge some horses, this school was fancy, fancy. We got around back when Charlie opened a door to let us in, I don't think this was the right door. We got about 5ft in when good ole Goldberg had to run into something. He screamed as he tripped falling into the curtain taking all of us down with him.

"Get off me Germaine!" I said pushing him off as someone ripped the curtain off us. I looked up to see no other than Dean Buckley surprised as can be staring back at us.

"You gotta be kidding me." I muttered looking to the place packed with students.

"Hi.
We're the ducks." Charlie said awkwardly. I facepalmed right there and looked at Julie to see her trying her best not to laugh at us. They just ended the assembly then and we had to walk out to the people. Embarrassment couldn't even explain what just happened. Glad to be out of there we had to go to the library. I was looking at the artifacts when Charlie said something.

"Woah look at the ants. Antsville." Charlie said. We turned around and looked at the ant farm stuffed with ants.

"You can learn a lot from ants." Someone said. I looked through it to see Dean and about yelped. He looked like a creepy grandpa.

"These Brazilian fire ants can teach you a lot, about successful societal structure." Buckley said as we moved moved to the other side. "Come here, you see there's one queen in there. The rest are dedicated worker ants. Everybody pulls their weight. Nobody complains, there's harmony and growth. Same here at Eden Hall. Only you, are the workers, the backbone."

"And you're the queen?" Russ asked. I stifled a laugh at that. The Headmaster just looked at Russ for a second and walked away. Soon enough we had to go to our first class. All I know is this chick looked like she was only there cause she gets paid. We settled into our seats and I sat between Adam and Connie. The teacher wasted no time on getting started.

"Every Monday you'll have a practice quiz, every Wednesday you'll have a real quiz, every Friday you'll have an exam, and anytime I feel like it you'll have a surprise quiz or exam." She said depressingly. My mouth was wide open in shock. This was gonna be fun....

We were at our next draining class with I think Mr. Wells or somethin like that.

"It's been said that the present is to the past, like a dwarf on the shoulders of a giant." He said walkng up the row and demonstrating. "If the dwarf holds his seat, he can indeed see further than the giant. But beware if the dwarf should grow careless, and forget his place." He said stopping at Fulton's desk. He put the gnome down and next thing I knew he was slamming the book down on the gnome making the class jump.

"What did that poor thing do to him..." I muttered.

"History is a giant." The teacher said menacingly. "Get ready to ride."
Soon enough the bell rang and we were walking along. Luis was stalking the cheerleader like she was prey, and I'm pretty sure that's the Riley kids girlfriend. Me and Adam weren't trailing to far behind him. I heard Riley say something about Luis.

"Is it just me or did Luis turn kinda...creepy." I said to Adam.

"Yeah I guess he likes em older." Adam said making me snicker. I seen that one blockhead, Cole I think, go up to Luis. Next thing that happened Luis was checked into the locker beside this kid in a monkey suit.

"Ow! And a hard into the board. That has to hurt." The kid commentated. Luis looked very offended by what just happened. We didn't even get a foot when Kenny came around the corner and the oaf grabbed his lunch from him.

"All this work makes me hungry." Cole said.

"I told you they were gonna hate us." I said to Adam.

"Yeah I was just hoping you weren't right." Adam said. We walked a little longer trailing behind Charlie some. He hoped down like 3 steps and then some girl came up to him. She had a a clipboard and I'm guessing it was a petition or something like that. Charlie looked absolutely lost like wasn't talking.

"He's smooth with it." I said as we walked by.

"Yeah Charlie's never been the best at talking to girls." Adam said. I nodded in agreement. There wasn't too much people in the hallway right, me and Adam were going to social studies. I turned my backpack making sure I grabbed my pencil cause I couldn't remember. I felt someone come up beside me but didn't pay it much attention.

"Hey y/n." Someone said causally.

"Hey." I responded absentmindedly. I stopped digging when I realized it. "Wait...." I turned up to see no other than Beau Curtis smiling.

"Beau!" I said excitedly. I engulfed him in a hug about knocking him down. I held him for a good second and we pulled apart.

"You got your braces off." I said. He smiled big like he didn't think I'd noticed.

"Yeah like a month ago, did you even remember that I said I was gonna be going to Eden Hall?" Beau asked.

"Now that I've seen you here, yes, but I guess I just never thought to remember it." I said.

"Well that's sweet of you." He said laughing a little. "I honestly thought I was never gonna see you again til I heard that the ducks were joining us here. I almost thought you weren't coming til your little entrance this morning."

"I was so close to forgetting about that." I said making Beau and Adam laugh a little.

"So I see you two are still together." Beau said.

"Yup, you and Devyn are still separated right?" I asked.

"Yeah, she's a psycho, she gave me back my shirts and stuff but she cut them all up and painted on them. Those were my favorite ones, and the fact that she's the one that cheated!" Beau said.

"Jeez, good thing you gotta outta that while you could." I said.

"For sure, who's your guys next class?" Beau asked.

"Social Studies, with uh.... Mrs. Colburn." I said.

"That's perfect! That's who I'm going to." Beau said. I smiled happily and looked to Adam who was smiling at me. Ok, so maybe Eden Hall wasn't gonna be so bad after all....

After the slowest school day ever it was time for practice. I was just wearing my mighty ducks jersey. We walked in to see the varsity still practicing. Everybody made their comments about the arena. The varsity was good, I mean I guess thats why they're varsity. The varsity looked like they were up to something, I watched as Cole and Riley went up to the goalie, I don't know the goalies name, but he doesn't seem half as bad. He hasn't picked on us yet. We began walking onto the ice when Riley and Cole came up to us.

"Well if it isn't captain ducky." Riley said putting his hands on Charlie.

"Keep your hands off him." Fulton said shoving him off. Riley backed up and looked at Fulton for a moment.

"Ooh look a bash bro. I'm so scared" Cole said making his goons laugh. The goalie was the only one not laughing.

"Break it up!" Their coach said coming up to us. We skated along the side while varsity packed up.

"What about it cowboy? Round up?" Charlie asked.

"Hey Charlie shouldn't we wait for the new coach before we mess around?" Connie said.

"This is how we practice Connie. Duck hockey." Charlie said. "He'll have to get used to it sooner or later."
"Well come on cowboy, hit it."

"Yee-haw, round em up doggies." Dwayne said excitedly. We skated off quickly I was trying to stay in between someone and Dwayne. Adam was caught soon which meant I had to move. I held onto Connie as she held onto Julie trying to stay away from Dwayne. Averman hid in the goal while others skated around. Dwayne was close behind Charlie, he threw the lasso making it go to Charlie's shoulder. Charlie hit the ground sliding forwards, I looked up and realized the person he just slid towards some dude who just blew the whistle, must be our new coach.

"My name is Coach Orion, you can call me coach, or Coach Orion." He said monotone. Seemed like a stick in the mud.

"Well you can call me Charlie." Charlie joked putting out his hand.

"That must be what that 'C' on your jersey stands for, huh?" Coach said pointing to the C for captain. "It sure doesn't stand for captain."

"Sorry Coach were just messin with you, ya know." Russ said.

"Hey Bombay gave him that C." Goldberg said.

"And I respect that, but that's the past." He said. "This is my team now and I'll be selecting the captain."

"You gotta be kidding me right, I mean you're the rookie here. I mean we all been together for 4 years." Charlie said.

"Okay Charlie, laps. Right now." Orion said.

"How many, Coach Orion." Charlie said sassily.

"I don't recall saying." Orion said back. Charlie huffed and skated off. "Now you listen up, and you listen up good. We are here for one reason, and one reason only, know what that is? It starts with a W" Orion said.

"To win coach Orion sir!" Averman said dumbly.

"No." Coach said back. Me and Russ did everything to stifle a laugh. "To work! High school hockey is very hard work. And it all begins, with defense. I've seen your tapes, I know you can score goals. I just don't know if you can stop them." Coach said.

"Hey." Goldberg said laughing offended like. Orion gave him a stare and Goldberg backed up. "Sorry sir."

"You're not kids or little ducks anymore. So I'm not gonna treat you that way. You're gonna learn to play two way hockey. Offense and Defense. It's gonna take one thing, starts with a W."

"To work Coach Orion sir!" Averman said dumbly again earning a hit from Dwayne.

"Wrong." Coach said. "Will. It's gonna take real will if you wanna play in my barn. Alright. Count off let's climb the ladder." Everybody went off in 1,2,3's. Me and Adam were both 1's which was nice. Adam skated up first scoring on Goldberg easily. Goldberg said something in response and it was my turn. I skated up and got the puck in fairly easily.

"Lucky shot just caught me off guard Y/l/n." Goldberg said as I skated away. The drill went on forever. Practice was such a drag it wasn't even funny. We walked in the locker room all exhausted as can be. My locker was beside Connie's this time.

"Somebody get a shovel and bury me right here." Goldberg said sprawling out.

"I will teach you how to play like what? Starts with a W. Wussies. Wussies on offense and defense, defense, defense. Hoora!" The boys mocked until they about had a heart attack when Orion walked in.

"Eden Hall requires you to maintain a C average to compete. I believe that's a bad rule." Coach said earning some happy cheers from the boys. "I don't want any C player on my team, B's or better, or you're gonna be riding the pine pony." Coach said putting something on the board. "Now you got 15 minutes after every practice to clear this locker room. Or homework to do. Oh, and one more thing, stay clear of the varsity until we we play em in the jv.-Varsity showdown. You got that?" He stood there for a moment and walked out slamming the door.

"15 minutes? Man I cannot move." Russ complained.

"Hey guys look, he posted our positions." Connie said. I didn't feel like going to the board at the moment so I continued getting packed up. People got up and angry Fulton threw up his hands.

"I can't believe this I play left side not right side." Fulton said.

"Third line?! Man that's a major diss." Russ said walking away. Connie continued looking at the board and Adam joined her.

"I'm not even posted." Adam said.

"Yeah you are, Adam Banks third line center. Varsity?" Connie asked confused.

"I made varsity?" Adam said confused and disgusted.

"That's the great thing about being goalie ya know? You always know where you stand and just mind my business and take my place between the pipes." Goldberg rambled. Averman chuckled a little at the board.

"You're riding the pine pony pal." Averman said.

"Hahah very funny." Goldberg said laughing.

"Julie's one. You're two." Averman said looking to him.

"I'm backup?" Goldberg said in disbelief. He got up and ran to the board.

"Aren't you gonna see where you're at?" Connie asked me.

"Don't care enough to go up there at the moment." I responded. She nodded and went back to doing what she was doing.

"How can he do this to me? What am I chopped liver?" Goldberg said frustrated. Dwayne began up to the board.

"Hey.... Charlie you're not captain...." Dwayne said looking at it. Guy went up and joined Dwayne.

"What? Then who is?" Charlie asked disgusted. Guy looked back to him a little scared and confused.

"Y/n is..." Guy said. I chocked on thin air right there.

"What? You're joking I don't wanna be captain!" I said quickly going to the board.

"It says right there." Dwayne said pointing to it.

"There's no way.... I don't wanna be captain one bit." I said in disbelief. Sure enough it was my name, I tried rubbing my name as if it would do anything. Charlie came up to the board with us and looked at my name for a second.

"Charlie I'm sorry... I really don't wanna be captain. I don't know what Orion was thinking." I said. Charlie just looked at me for a moment almost hurt and just walked away. My best friend.. I just hurt my best friend when I didn't have anything to do with it. I looked back at my name and just don't wanna believe it. I'm not the captain type, I don't wanna be a captain and never have. I slowly went back and sat by Connie. Charlie was mad at me and it's not my fault. The energy in there was weird, not so mad but just like, what the hell is happening. Charlie was one of the first out of the locker room. He wouldn't look at me. I packed up my stuff and walked out with Adam. He didn't talk for a little bit, it was like he wanted to but didn't know how.

"So uh y/n.... how are you feeling?" Adam asked nervous sounding.

"Well considering one of my best friends looks like I murdered him, I wouldn't say the best." I said.

"Y/n I don't think he's mad at you specifically.... I just think hes mad at coach and the moment. He should know it wasn't your choice." Adam said.

"Yeah, but you should've seen his face when he looked at me. Looked like I kicked a puppy or somethin." I said.

"He didn't mean it like that...it's just... I don't know. All I can say is I know Charlie's not mad at you, try talking to him sometime soon and he'll mostly likely forgive you. I've known Charlie since I was about 11, he's a forgiving guy." Adam said.

"I really hope so. But anyways how are you feeling about the whole varsity thing?" I asked.

"It sucks. I don't wanna be on Varsity, they've all been jerks so far. I'm not even good enough for varsity." Adam said.

"Ok, that's a lie, you're more than good enough for varsity Adam, you're the best on the team. The only nice thing is that you might not get picked on by varsity as much since you'll be 'one of them'." I said.

"I will never be one of them. They're all just stupid jocks who are trying to make our lives hell." Adam said.

"Very true. Have you noticed that goalie looks a lot like Gunnar Stahl?" I asked.

"What?" He asked confused.

"The Varsity goalie, he looks like Gunnar Stahl from Iceland." I said. Adam looked at me for a second thinking about it. 

"Yeah I guess he does except not blonde." Adam said.

"Well yeah, but still." I said. Adam nodded in agreement.

"So do you wanna hangout or something like that?" Adam asked.

"Sure, but what's there to do here?" I asked.

"Well we don't have to stay here, we can go other places." Adam said.

"Alright I'm down." I said....

We decided to just eat at this Jimmy Johns. We just talked Adam mad about being on varsity, and me still hoping Charlie isn't mad at me. I mean I doubt he hates me, but sometimes Charlie takes things too hard. Long story short, he's dramatic at time. I love him, but man he's like a drama queen. All I know is I don't wanna be captain, I gotta talk to Orion or something. Couldn't he have made like Charlie, or Connie, or Guy anyone else other than me.

"Hey Adam." I said.

"Hmh?" He responded with food still in his mouth.

"Why do you think Orion chose me as captain? There's so much better option for it, but he chose me." I said.

"Well probably cause your the next best player for him, he put me on varsity and he probably couldn't put you, so he made you captain." Adam said.

"For one no, I'm not the next best player. Charlie and Connie and Guy could all beat me, he must've been high or something." I said.

"Y/n I'm not lying, you're one of the best. You've got a natural talent for hockey, but you always deny you're good." Adam said.

"You deny it though." I said.

"No I just don't.... listen thats not the point. You asked for my opinion of why he chose you for captain." Adam said.

"I simply don't get it, I don't wanna be captain. Not one part of me wants to be the 'head' of the team. I hate it." I said.

"Well you could try talking to coach." Adam said.

"I'm gonna... I think. He's kinda scary. But at the same time if I just didn't act on it or do anything 'captain' wise he could just remove me from it. But what if he thinks I'm a bad player and doesn't let me play? Man this is confusing." I said.

"Don't overthink it y/n, just let it role on. Charlie will forgive you soon enough and maybe Orion will make him Captain instead." Adam said.

"Yeah I guess... I don't know anymore." I said.

"Just don't worry about it, we'll get back to the dorms and it'll be curfew, perfect and you'll get to meet your roommate." Adam said.

"I completely forgot about her." I said.

"See, now we better hurry up cause curfews soon." Adam said getting up. I grabbed my trash and threw it away at the door. I followed Adam out grabbing his hand as we began walking.....

We made it to my dorm meaning we had to